reborn in america

On the night before, that is, the night when Adam came to New York, Adam and Lydia had a face-to-face exchange for the first time since the last farewell. The turmoil is still raging throughout the United States at this moment, even affecting the two industries of newspapers and writers.

"As far as I know, so far the New York Times, the LA Times and even USA Today are contacting some famous writers, hoping to serialize their new books in newspapers to test the water." Lydia said in addition to those What Adam already knew before, and also said something that surprised Adam, that is, the newspaper industry actually wanted to carry out a large-scale cooperation with the writer, and the initiator of this incident was Adam and his novel "The Witcher" .

"I think those famous writers are often harassed by various newspapers, haha, especially the writers of fantasy and science fiction." Adam didn't feel the guilt of the perpetrators at all, but thought of those writers who were usually low-key and extremely low-key. All kinds of interests tempt me to take a trip into this muddy water, which is extremely interesting.

"Yes, according to the latest news in the industry, Stephen King, Robert Jordan, etc. have been chased by major newspapers, but so far, no top writer has responded." Lydia will The information she collected was talking to Adam.

"Forget it, let them go. Anyway, it has nothing to do with us." Adam shook his head with a smile, and didn't want to mention it any more. Anyway, it was already a thing of the past for him.

However, I have to say that the chain reaction caused by the serialization of "The Witcher" this time is too great, far beyond Adam's original idea, but these are good things, at least no matter whether they are successful or not, writers, especially American writers Low- and middle-level writers will benefit, why not top-level writers?Because for top writers, compared to serializing their novels in newspapers, it is more convenient to publish them directly. Anyway, they have their own fans and attention, so no one will buy their novels and put them in newspapers. On the contrary, the serialization on the Internet will affect some potential book buyers, and the gain outweighs the loss.

On the contrary, those middle- and low-level authors often only earn enough money from publishing novels for expenses, and it is difficult to get much money. Serialization in newspapers not only helps to promote novels, but also has nothing to do with earning an extra sum of money. Happy to do it?

Of course, this is not to say that the newspaper is being taken advantage of. Although it is possible at the beginning, after several months of trials, there will basically be a decision again, whether to abandon serial novels, return to the original design, or keep the serial novel column. And what kind of novels should be serialized in newspapers, etc., these are destined to become a research topic.

But at least for now, these have nothing to do with Adam. It is unknown for the time being. He has no new serialization ideas, but how to get benefits at the moment when the fame of "The Witcher" reaches its peak.

You know, because of the newspaper’s serialization for nearly a month and the turmoil created during this period, the name of the novel "The Witcher" has been known to at least 30.00% of the people in the United States, and there are tens of millions of people who have read the content of the novel. These But they are all potential book readers, that is, naked money.

With this wave of unintentional promotional activities for the novel across the United States, there is no possibility of failure for "The Witcher", and there is no theoretical possibility. There are only two predictions for this novel: success and more success.

Because of these cognitions, when Adam met with the agreed HarperCollins people on the second day, that is, on Tuesday, he naturally had more confidence and bargaining chips.

Accompanying Adam was not only Lydia, but also people from the Anderson-Tonares law firm, an old friend. These agents, led by Tonares, continued to act as agents for Adam's new book this time.Although the other party had a small negligence and lack of professionalism when representing "Jurassic Park", the Anderson-Tonares Law Firm was still conscientious in the various activities that followed, saving Adam A lot of effort has won a lot of benefits, so this new book is naturally entrusted to them to represent various things.

Compared with Adam's indifference, on the one hand, Tonares was optimistic about Adam as early as when he decided to start writing a new book. When the storm of "The Witcher" blew up, he was even more aggressive, but Adam was early. I left California and couldn't get in touch, so I had to give up.

This time when Adam came to New York, before negotiating the publishing contract of the new book with HarperCollins, the first thing to do was to sign a contract with the Anderson-Tornares law firm about the other party acting as the broker of the novel "The Witcher" .

Then, in the afternoon, on behalf of Adam, the team of the new wizard manager Tonares had a meeting with the people from HarperCollins led by Cromwell who had been waiting for a long time.The two sides have launched intense talks on various aspects of publishing. Since "The Witcher" has been so hot in the past month, it has almost reached the point where everyone in North America knows everyone, and HarperCollins is directly saved. It can be said that Adam still regards them as the first choice of novel publishers and did not contact other publishers before discussing with them. It can be said to be extremely excited.

Because of the predictable success, as well as a series of fantasy novels that can be predicted, coupled with the happy cooperation of the last "Jurassic Park", the negotiations between the two parties on royalties and first prints were not so difficult .

In the end, HarperCollins took out the top royalties in North America, and it can even be said that only a few master writers can enjoy the royalties, 20.00%.That is to say, the interest share ratio between the publishing house and Adam is 1; 2. Compared with the original 200-[-] split, it is a big step forward. At the same time, the first printing is frantic and directly ordered [-] million copies.

And the price of the novel "The Witcher" is also set at 29.9 US dollars, which is almost [-] US dollars. That is to say, after signing the contract, Adam can directly get tens of millions of dollars. You must know that the super bestseller " Jurassic Park currently does not bring Adam much more income.

However, the taxes to be paid on such a large income are also scary-30.00% five federal taxes!It's like cutting Adam's flesh.Therefore, how to avoid taxes in a reasonable way naturally needs to be considered. Of course, these troublesome jobs will naturally continue to be handed over to his partner Anderson-Tonares Law Firm. The income of tens of millions of dollars a year does not avoid taxes. For a real fool, of course, don’t think that you don’t have to pay taxes if you avoid taxes reasonably. It’s just that you pay less through various methods. Otherwise, the most powerful institution in the United States, the Taxation Bureau, will teach him how to behave.

Of course, how to pay less is a technical task. For example, each state and region has various tax exemption clauses, such as various tax refund laws that can also be used, etc. How to use these laws reasonably and flexibly to avoid tax is a test. The lawyer's professional ability, but these are familiar to Tonares, so Adam doesn't need to worry about it.

So on Friday of this week, HarperCollins, who signed the publishing contract, together with Adam and Tonares convened almost all the heavyweight media to hold a press conference, announcing that the novel "The Beginning of the Witcher" had been published with Harper Collins has officially signed a publishing contract, and it will hit the market on the last day of September.

You must know that for general heavyweight novels, the publication time will be set several months or even more than half a year in advance, and then the publishing house will promote it. Finally, when the novel is published, it will be able to get as much sales as possible.

But the wizard is different. With the previous serialization events, his reputation is unprecedentedly high. If the time is pushed back, it will weaken the sales of the novel, so he signed the contract in early August, and it will be published directly at the end of September. This speed Just like a rocket.

At the same time, HarperCollins will open novel book bookings on the second Monday after the press conference, that is, three days later, all bookstores that cooperate with it will continue to officially close on the last day of August, and all pre-booked " Readers of the novel "The Witcher" will get it from the bookstore three days in advance of the official release date.

The press conference didn't take long, only 10 minutes, and only a few friendly newspapers were invited to ask questions, and then it ended directly, making the reporters who came over stunned for a moment, waiting for them to react When he wanted more relevant news, Adam had already been sent to the hotel.

This is not to blame for the excitement of those reporters, it can only be blamed for the whirlwind of "The Witcher" is too crazy, and Adam and HarperCollins announced the release date of the novel in this limelight, and directly announced the opening of pre-orders for the novel, which naturally made people Countless melon-eating reporters were commotioned.

Among them, they thought a lot about the topic of Adam and the California Times on the road. As long as Adam answered any one randomly, there would be a headline on the front page the next day, but obviously Adam did not want irrelevant news to steal the news of the novel’s release , so it was very unscrupulous to sneak away after the press conference was held, leaving all the reporters helpless. They could only honestly prepare the newspaper for the next day based on the information provided by HarperCollins and Tonarell content.

Although the novel's reputation in the United States is already loud enough, but these reputations cannot be directly exchanged for sales, so HarperCollins and Tonares also discussed starting the first round of publicity for the novel.